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Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Writing like a writer is about craft and means gaining absolute control over your material and your tools. It means, for instance, knowing when to use dialogue and when to summarize discourse, learning how to use adjec- tives and adverbs that is, sparingly and concentrating on the specific rather than the vague and abstract. It means anchoring your story in a par- ticular time and place; beginning writers often neglect to supply basic and crucial information: Who are these characters? Where are they? When is this story taking place? Thinking like a writer is more complex, because it involves the uncon- scious. You can rely just so much on your five senses; after that you must call on curiosity, imagination, and skepticism-an open attitude not to be confused with cynicism. Skepticism obliges you to look beneath the obvi- ous to get at the true meaning of, say, a smile, a crying jag, or a burst of anger. Things, in other words, are rarely what they seem. The writer must "t. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM388-G-9137
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